Message from Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 45.
“I have heard your discussion and am pleased that you and your friend are progressing so rapidly in your knowledge of spiritual truth. Very soon you both will be surprised at the extent of your knowledge of spiritual information.
“No human whose time on earth is given only to what may be called material things, will be able, when they become spirits, to understand spiritual laws. One cannot perceive spiritual things with the material mind; and neither can mortals by reasoning with those powers, which know only material things, be able to perceive the truths of the spirit. Hence the necessity for humans to cultivate their soul perceptions, which are greater and more comprehending than all the faculries of the material mind.
“Mind, as usually understood by humans, is without doubt a wonderful instrument for investigating and learning the laws of nature, and the relation of cause and effect in the physical world. But such powers, when applied to things of the spirit, will not help much, but rather retard the progress of the soul’s development of its faculties.
“The reasoning powers given to humans are the highest faculty of their material mind, and when properly exercised afford a very safe and satisfactory method of arriving at truth. But such powers when exercised in reference to things which are strangers to it, and which such powers have no experience, cannot be depended upon to bring conclusions which will assure mortals of truth.
“Laws are eternal and never change, and are made by the Father to be applied to all conditions and realtionships of both the material and spiritual worlds. But a knowledge of the laws pertaining to the material will not supply a knowledge of the laws pertaining to the spiritual world.
“Hence the great scientist who on earth was able to discover and show the operation of the law controlling material things, when she comes to the spirit world and attempts to apply this knowledge to things of the spirit, will be wholly unable to do so. So you see the necessity for humans to become acquainted with spiritual laws, if they expect to progress in ways to which they apply.
“The material laws may be learned by the operation of the senses of the material mind, but the spiritual laws, only by the faculties of the soul.” To be continued…